Monday, April 24, 2017

Assistant Squad Leader billet is now a thing....

via Inside Defense...

The Marine Corps will also add company-level operations centers (CLOC) and company-level intelligence centers (CLIC) to push capabilities down to lower echelons and "be able to operate more distributed, more dispersed in the future environment," according to Busby.The squad, the smallest unit of organization, will also evolve with the addition of an "assistant to the squad leader," Busby said. The assistant will help the squad leader manage some new technologies the Marines want to use at the squad level, such as small quad-copters and computer tablets.The idea was first tested out by 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment during the Marine Corps Air-Ground Task Force Integrated Experiment last August. The battalion has been named the Marine Corps "experimental unit" as part of the "Sea Dragon" experimentation portion of the Force 2025 effort and will deploy to Japan later this year using some non-traditional gear and concepts."That's an idea that starts to build upon a fifth generation squad in the future," Busby said of the assistant to the squad leader.